Always been a big fan of Lileks. Really miss the Diner (AM1500 8 years ago or so).

But on this topic, you must read Michael Crichton's State of Fear which portrays a major Hollywood environmental activist with his own jet, etc.

My picture-in-picture view of C-SPAN is interfering with my blog view, which is regrettable, given the blathering speeches currently being vomited up by self-important legislators barely interested in eventual responses from Judge Alito.